Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Happy Fat Tuesday!

Hey ya'll! It's our last day of debauchery before Lent begins, so laissez les bon temps rouler (or "let the good times roll," as they say in NOLA!). I don't actually celebrate Lent, nor do I live in New Orleans, but no good Southerner misses an excuse to throw a party. Today, I brought one of Kittee Kake's yummy-nummy King Cake's to the office:

Hidden somewhere in there is a white bean dressed up like a baby (thanks to Sharpie) since I couldn't find a plastic baby anywhere.

On Saturday, Stephanie (a.k.a. Poopie Bitch) and I hosted a Mardi Gras Vegan Dessert Potluck for our veggie group Food Awareness. Here we are all decked out in proper Mardi Gras colors:

Steph brought one of Kittee's King Cakes! Hers looks way better than the one I brought to work today. She used more colored sugar ...

I made the Smlove Pie from the Veganomicon:

OMG! This was so good, ya'll. Definitely my new favorite party dessert. It's a chocolate tofu-based pie with a graham cracker crust, peanut butter caramel, candied pecans, and chocolate ganache!

Steph also brought some yummy Half Blondies/Half Brownies. So good (and believe it or not, my first blondie experience)!

Corey and his girlfriend (I can't remember her name! I'm such a bad party host!) brought some non-alcoholic Darjeeling Sangria Tea, which we promptly spiked with vodka (hey, it was a Mardi Gras party!):

The lovely raw Judith made a savory Raw Bread (garnished with fresh daffodils!) to prevent us from going into sugar comas:

Overall, the event was a huge success. We all gorged on sweets, sipped tea and hurricane cocktails, and let the good time roll:

33 comments:

happy fat tuesday to you too, Bianca! that's so awesome you made a king cake to share with your coworkers! superw00t! i think both king cakes look awesome! hooray for the little bean baby! :)

i wish i were there to enjoy all the gloriousness of the vegan dessert potluck. i probably would have eaten myself into a sugar coma! mmmmmmmmmm! looks like everyone had the most stellar time! superhappyface!

Happy Fat Tuesday! I am going to reveal my stupidity here, but I have actually never known what Lent is other that it is religious and I am, well, not.

All those sweets, oh my, I'm almost going into a sugar coma just looking at it all. That doesn't change the fact that I would LOVE to reach through my computer screen and grab some of those yummy delights.

Wow, Bianca, that looks like so much fun! You're too cute!That picture of the S'mlove pie is really great, just the lighting and focus, wow! although as much of a chocolate and peanut butter freak as i am, when i made that pie, it was almost too much for me to handle, like i could barely eat any without feeling, like....wooooooo, haha i can't explain it...sugar high?also, what was that raw bread made out of? it looks intriguing, especially since most raw breads you see are like flat dehydrated crackers, and this one looks thick!

Love the cake! It is awesome. Yes, I absolutely loved the squash casserole and I have yet to write about the sweet potato bread, but I just finished eating yet another glorious piece. I will comment and post pictures soon. You have been feeding us well, that is for sure. Keep up the good work!

hahah maybe you could incorporate chickpeas into the bread through chickpea flour? haha def joking!but pb and sweet potatoes really might go nicely together, i once made a pumpkin pb smoothie and pumpkin is kinda like sweet potatoes right? :)